Offside rule

Quality:

Offside - law in association football. Article “Offside rule” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1867^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 9617^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3721^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3254^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Offside rule”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9617^th place) and edited by 1854 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2144 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #155 in June 2014
• Global: #669 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #38 in June 2012
• Global: #361 in June 2018

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Offside (association football)		95.5003
2	Polish (pl) Spalony (piłka nożna)		30.6194
3	Greek (el) Παίκτης εκτός παιχνιδιού (Οφσάιντ)		30.1437
4	Estonian (et) Suluseis (jalgpall)		29.2407
5	Chinese (zh) 越位 (足球)		29.2066
6	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		27.2989
7	Italian (it) Fuorigioco (calcio)		25.4976
8	French (fr) Loi 11 du football		25.3901
9	Portuguese (pt) Impedimento (futebol)		24.725
10	Arabic (ar) تسلل (كرة القدم)		23.9355

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Offside (association football)		5 744 926
2	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		2 503 584
3	Chinese (zh) 越位 (足球)		2 205 221
4	Japanese (ja) オフサイド (サッカー)		1 748 282
5	Polish (pl) Spalony (piłka nożna)		1 697 688
6	French (fr) Loi 11 du football		1 365 395
7	Vietnamese (vi) Luật việt vị (bóng đá)		1 191 119
8	Turkish (tr) Ofsayt		1 174 159
9	Arabic (ar) تسلل (كرة القدم)		991 934
10	Russian (ru) Положение вне игры (футбол)		903 442

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Offside (association football)		85 734
2	Persian (fa) آفساید		15 000
3	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		13 876
4	French (fr) Loi 11 du football		13 055
5	Korean (ko) 오프사이드		11 426
6	Portuguese (pt) Impedimento (futebol)		9 592
7	Japanese (ja) オフサイド (サッカー)		8 469
8	Dutch (nl) Buitenspel (voetbal)		6 306
9	Russian (ru) Положение вне игры (футбол)		5 599
10	Polish (pl) Spalony (piłka nożna)		4 893

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Offside (association football)		469
2	Dutch (nl) Buitenspel (voetbal)		129
3	French (fr) Loi 11 du football		113
4	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		105
5	Polish (pl) Spalony (piłka nożna)		100
6	Hebrew (he) נבדל		79
7	Greek (el) Παίκτης εκτός παιχνιδιού (Οφσάιντ)		75
8	Russian (ru) Положение вне игры (футбол)		64
9	Portuguese (pt) Impedimento (futebol)		59
10	Italian (it) Fuorigioco (calcio)		58

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Offside (association football)		5
2	Greek (el) Παίκτης εκτός παιχνιδιού (Οφσάιντ)		1
3	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		1
4	Russian (ru) Положение вне игры (футбол)		1
5	Swedish (sv) Offside (fotboll)		1
6	Vietnamese (vi) Luật việt vị (bóng đá)		1
7	Chinese (zh) 越位 (足球)		1
8	Arabic (ar) تسلل (كرة القدم)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ofsayd (futbol)		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Засада (футбол)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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